Step up! Tackling the Burden of Insufficient Physical Activity in Europe
This report calls on policy makers to step up the policy response to increase physical activity. Being physically active is one of the most important things people can do to improve their physical and mental health. It helps prevent a range of non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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Paris :
Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development
2023.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Table of contents
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- Executive summary
- 1 Why physical activity?
- Physical activity has a wide range of benefits for physical and mental health
- Adults should do at least 150-300 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity per week
- A variety of policies and plans on physical activity have been adopted in recent years
- References
- Annex 1.A. WHO Guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour
- Annex 1.A. WHO Guidelines on physical activityand sedentary behaviour
- Infants under 1 year of age
- Children 1 and 2 years of age
- Children 3 and 4 years of age
- Children and adolescents 5-17 years of age
- Adults 18-64 years of age
- Adults 65 years and older
- Pregnant and postpartum women
- Adults and older adults with chronic conditions (aged 18 years and older)
- Children and adolescents (aged 5-17 years) living with disability
- Adults (aged 18 years and older) living with disability
- 2 Physical activity in Europe: Trends and patterns
- More than one in three European adults does not do enough physical activity
- Only four in ten adults exercise regularly, with low rates in women, the elderly and lower socio-economic groups
- Few adolescents meet WHO recommended physical activity levels
- Insufficient physical activity is driven by economic development, urbanisation, environmental and occupational factors
- Physical activity decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic
- References
- 3 The burden of insufficient physical activity
- Quantifying the burden of insufficient physical activity makes a strong case for investing in prevention
- The burden of insufficient physical activity on population health
- Physical activity could prevent more than 10 000 premature deaths per year.
- People who are currently insufficiently active could increase their life expectancy by 7.5 months by moving more
- Increasing physical activity could prevent 11.5 million new NCD cases by 2050
- The burden of insufficient physical activity on health care expenditure
- Increasing physical activity can save nearly EUR PPP 8 billion per year in health care expenditure
- EU Member States could on average save 0.6% of their health care expenditure by increasing physical activity
- References
- Annex 3.A. Linking physical activity to BMI in the OECD SPHeP-NCDs model
- Annex 3.B. The burden of insufficient physical activity without the link with BMI
- Notes
- 4 Policy options to increase physical activity
- Increasing physical activity levels can have considerable health and economic benefits
- Policy makers can choose from a range of options to increase physical activity levels
- School-based programmes
- Workplace-based programmes
- Interventions in the health care sector
- Interventions in the sports sector
- Urban design, environment and transport policies
- Information and communication policies
- A comprehensive, well-funded package of policies is needed to get people moving
- References
- Glossary.
